New blog review of The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Lesley Wheeler and Sundress Publications Best Dressed!
- At March 09, 2015
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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Lesley Wheeler writes a bit about my newest book, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, as well as its journey to publication, and the concept of poetic difficulty, at her blog here.
Thank you to Sundress Publications for choosing a poem from my third book, Unexplained Fevers, for this week’s “Best Dressed Feature” “I Like the Quiet: Snow White”.
Yesterday we spent a beautiful afternoon over at my little brother and his wife’s rented house (where they kindly allowed us to do laundry, since our washing machine remains broken) and we took a gorgeous walk at downtown Seattle’s Seward Park, which was lovely. This was the view of Mt. Rainier from the lake there:
It’s easy to love Seattle in the sunshine, with the mountain out, and all the water shining and blue. Hyacinths, cherry blossoms, daffodils, and I even spied some early magnolia trees blossoming downtown. Seattle’s usually a moody, grey, difficult-to-love city in March, so this is quite extraordinary. I also spied two bald eagles this week.
We’ve been house-hunting as well, and I’ve observed even a lousy neighborhood can appear beautiful with shafts of sunlight hitting the puffy white and pink cherry tree branches. I’m a bit behind of all my writing obligations, but in my defense, it’s hard to concentrate with all this getting ready to buy and sell a house/appliance breakdowns/allergy testing/sunshine going on. It’s supposed to be 63 outside today…
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
